EA says its 'Battlefield 6' anti-cheat system is a big time success

Cheaters apparently aren't prospering in Battlefield 6.

EA's latest large-scale military shooter has been one of the best-selling games of 2025 so far, in a way that has actually challenged Call of Duty's dominance in that category. That means lots of people are playing it, so lots of people are trying to use cheats to get an unfair advantage over the competition. The good news, at least from a competitive standpoint, is that a new report from EA itself says it's been able to curb the large majority of cheaters on PC using its custom Javelin anti-cheat software.

The developers at DICE are evaluating this using a metric called Match Infection Rate, which roughly measures the percentage of multiplayer matches that include some form of cheating. According to DICE, Javelin has reduced the MIR to a mere 2 percent, meaning that 98 percent of Battlefield 6 matches on PC maintain the game's integrity. Given how well the game has sold, 2 percent is probably still a significant number of matches to include cheaters, but it's also only 2 percent.

Of course, this isn't without at least a tiny bit of controversy. Javelin is a kernel-level anti-cheat system, which means it has access to the deepest parts of your PC. A lot of people don't like this for privacy and security reasons; it's been a hot topic of debate among PC gamers for years now.

It's easy to sympathize with both sides of the debate, honestly. Stopping cheaters is an essential part of maintaining a large multiplayer game's fun for players, and kernel-level anti-cheat software (at least in this case) appears well-equipped to do so. On the other hand, one could very easily argue that no video game needs access to the deepest recesses of your operating system. Still, EA's system here seems to be working.